Chapter 16 AP world Flashcards

306360114	Vasco Da Gama	Portuguese mariner; first European to reach India by sea in 1498	0
306360115	Columbus	Italian navigator in the service of Aragon and Castile; sailed west to find a route to India and instead discovered the Americas in 1492	1
306360116	East India Companies	British, French, and Dutch trading companies that obtained government monopolies of trade to India and Asia; acted independently in their regions	2
306360117	Ferdinand Magellan	Portuguese captain in Spanish service; began the first circumnavigation of the globe in 1519; died during voyage; allowed Spain to claim possession of the Philippines	3
306360118	World economy	Created by Europeans during the late sixteenth century; based on c0ntrol of the seas; established an international exchange of foods, diseases and manufactured products	4
306360119	Culumbian Exchange	Interaction between Europe and the Americas; millions of Native Americans died of new diseases; new world crops spread to other world regions; European and Asian animals came to the Americas.	5
306360120	Lepanto	Naval battle between Spain and the Ottoman Empire resulting in Spanish victory in 1571; demonstrated European naval superiority over Muslims	6
306360121	Core nations	Nations, usually European, that profited from the world economy; controlled international banking and commercial services; exported manufactured goods and imported raw materials	7
306360122	Dependent economic zones	Regions within the world economy that produced raw materials' dependent on European markets and shipping; tendency to buid systems based on forced and cheap labor	8
306360123	Vasco de Balboa	Began first Spanish settlement on Mesoamerican mainland in 1590	9
306360124	New France	French colonies in Canada and elsewhere; extended along the St. Lawrence River and Great Lakes and down into the Mississippi River valley system	10
306360125	Atlantic colonies	British colonies in North America along Atlantic coast from New England to Georgia	11
306360126	Treaty of Paris	concluded in 1763 after the Seven Years War; Britain gained New France and ended France's importance in India	12
306360127	Cape Colony	Dutch colony established at Cape of Good Hope in 1652 to provide a coastal station for Dutch ships traveling to and from the East Indies; settlers expanded and fought with Bantu and other Africans	13
306360128	Boers	Dutch and other European settlers in Cape Colony before nineteenth century British occupation; later called Afrikaners	14
306360129	Calcutta	British East India Company headquarter in Bengal; captured in 1756 by Indians; later became administrative center for populous Bengal	15
306360130	Seven Years' War	Fought in Europe, Africa, and Asiabetween 1756 and 1763; the first worldwide war	16